david levitt. in our series one hundred german must remain. we began with the savvy contemporary art gallery here in berlin and its founder. will be my guest in the studio in a minute it's a very unique place which calls itself a laboratory of ideas a new way to look it up we'll find out but first more about the gallery. of onto thinks our relationship with art should be more open he favors horizontal thinking instead of a vertical hierarchical approach. has always been open to the new born in cameroon's capital in one nine hundred seventy seven he studied food technology in berlin and received a doctorate in medical biotechnology but he's always had a passion for art. eventually he decided to dedicate his life to it becoming an independent exhibition organizer nowadays he's one of the most in demand curators in the world. that reputation is well earned ten years ago who founded the art space savvy contemporary in a former been in power plant in two thousand and fifteen he became one of two artistic directors of the gallery there doing two yea

wall came down thirty years ago in fact itself it's kind of the main protagonist my colleague david levitt will explain more about . the shadow boxing when. have you ever been a victim felt like one what if you could fight back what if you could take out anyone you wanted to what do you. think. novel the shadow boxing woman is about a young woman living in berlin when the wall comes down after she survives a rape her whole world changes she finds a martial arts teacher who transforms her into a fighting machine. the woman's name is hell not because she's a total bad ass because head is the german word for bright her neighbors neighbors don't get meaning dark when they don't who goes missing and heather decides to do something about it i'm going to break into dog because flat after years of hard training with the way opening the walk should be no problem calling the police is out of the question it's not as if i were running. way doesn't just teach students punches and kicks but also the thirty six chinese survival stratagems wang has taught me how to wait calling it a feeling for the right

david levitte it was a few years later there rob and i i didn't get to see yoko. now i could remember the bed it happening because i was a sort of impressionable teenager at the time but you weren't even born but even for you it's a significant event and it is you know i think that just shows how i conduct the bed in was you can't talk about the peace movement of the late sixty's without talking about the bad and the way that you're go and john lennon went about selling peace to the world as if it were a product you know and they were the poster children as if it were a breakfast cereal even and this was their gimmick to get people's interest going now obviously we don't have world peace so in that sense it didn't work but the fact that we're still talking about a fifty years later is impressive and i don't think that it would work today with social media in the age where you or i could broadcast ourselves live on instagram in our pajamas no it but it had a lot more weight back that yeah but it did catch the attention of the world's press at the time but there was